Katy Perry Tries to Block Designer Katie Perry From Using Name

Australian fashion designer Katie Perry started her high-end clothing line two years ago — before Katy Perry broke big with "I Kissed a Girl" off her debut album One of the Boys — but she didn't trademark the name of her label then, which may prove to be a problem. EMI has sent the designer a cease-and-desist order, Reuters reports, announcing the pop star's intention to stop the clothing line from using a "similar name." Perry the singer — who is a fashion buff — was born with the name Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson; the designer's given name is Katie Jane Perry.

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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